382 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Other Species. 



In addition to the scale insects mentioned on the preceding pages, 

 there are a number of species which have been reported from the 

 northeastern United States and are mentioned here because they 

 may be found in Connecticut. Eriopeltis festucae (Fonscolombe), 

 known as the cottony grass scale, was observed in Maine 1 in 1904 

 and 1905, and has also been reported from Canada, Illinois, 

 Indiana and Dakota. Aspidiotus epigaeae Marlatt was described 

 in 1908 2 on trailing arbutus from Virginia and Ohio. The variety 

 japonica Kuwana of Fiorinia fioriniae Targioni-Tozzetti, has been 

 collected on hemlock in New York State and on Long Island. 3 

 According to Mrs. Fernald's Catalogue of Coccidae, the following 

 species have been recorded from Massachusetts : Ripersia blan- 

 chardii King and Cockerell, .R. flaveola Cockerell, R. kingii Cockerell, 

 R. lasii Cockerell, and R. minima Tinsley and Cockerell in ants 

 nests ; Kermes andrei King on oak ; Sphaerococcus sylvestris Cock- 

 erell and King on white oak ; Pulvinaria cockerelli King on Spiraea; 

 P. floccifera Westwood ; Lichtensia viburni Signoret ; Eulecanium 

 pallidior Cockerell and King; Lecanopsis lineolatae King and 

 Cockerell ; Diaspis minima Targioni-Tozzetti ; Aspidiotus cydoniae 

 Comstock var. crazvii Cockerell; A. fernaldi Cockerell and Chrys- 

 omphalus smilacis Comstock : from New York and Massachusetts, 

 Eulecanium quercifex Fitch, and from New York Toumeyelli pini 

 King, and Ripersiella maritima Cockerell from Long Island, N. Y., 

 on Spartina. As some of these species are doubtless synonyms, 

 and there may be some question about the identification of others, 

 a thorough review of the group is necessary to settle the matter. 

 It is quite probable that several additional indigenous species of 

 scale insects occur in Connecticut, though not yet brought to the 

 attention of entomologists. It is also expected that a number of 

 exotic species not included in this paper, like the greedy scale, 

 Aspidiotus rapax Comstock, and the camphor scale, Pseudaonidia 

 duplex Cockerell, may appear in our greenhouses wherever their 

 host plants are grown. Since this paper was prepared, a fluted 

 scale, apparently I eery a purchasi Maskell, on Acacia, has been sent 

 to the station from a greenhouse in Farmington, Conn. 



1 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 121, 1905. 



2 Bureau of Entomology, Technical Bulletin No. 16, page 21, 1908. 



3 Ibid., page 82. 



